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Search engines don't care what your website is made up of; they care about the content. It won't make a difference whether your blog is on the home page or in a folder.

For my websites I noticed when checking the domain name in the SE (GG for instance), that the search engine shows both of them ... the index page of the website (first) + the URL of the blog (second) ...